Crossword for Tue, 6/Jan/2009

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Across
2: Gradually reduce European Community requisitions for playback devices (4,9)

9: Orange lipstick shows spirit (5)

10: Page with scope for truism (9)

11: Talk about rent for a piece of property (7)

13: Layperson to straighten us clear (7)

14: Place to grow fruit trees, or a leafy veggie (7)

16: Priestess betrays Sen. Kefauver (5)

17: Light up during fire sale (5)

18: Supplier of defective rockets (7)

20: Conceive of gain (7)

21: We hear you will record part of a Christmas celebration (4,3)

23: Venus moving earth with Ipod (9)

24: Limp elbows display drive (5)

26: Beat it and ran, for example, with Girl Scout ingredients (9,4)

Down
1: Briefly viewed bigot's heart, opened like a boil (7)

2: Send back gangster's gun to get ID (3)

3: Scheme I enter into direct (5)

4: Drive back pariah from the East (5)

5: Neurotic lass edited letter, concealing the way it was rated. (7)

6: Stop the drip; its for future use (9)

7: One later enters, like, with matching sides (11)

8: Fish found in the mountains (7)

12: Toss a hammer into a nuclear accelerator! (4,7)

15: Heart-shaped ribbed cloth I order (9)

17: Mirror steps to Gore; props to Will Rogers (7)

18: Remodeled place is distinctive (7)

19: Race around example majestically (7)

21: Amazingly idle - why give up? (5)

22: Airborne without a trace of fear, reclining in plane (5)

25: Nightwear and jersey top added in afterthought (3)





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